Panos Constantinides

Panos Constantinides is Professor of Digital Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School. He holds a PhD from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and he is a Fellow of the Cambridge Digital Innovation Centre. Panos leads the Digital Transformation Research Group at Alliance Manchester Business School. Panos is also one of the co-founders of the European Digital Platforms Research Network (EU-DPRN). 

His research spans the individual, team and organizational level of analysis exploring such topics as automation and augmentation of individual task performance with AI; knowledge exchange within professional work practices; coordination among multi-disciplinary teams; the development and governance of large-scale systems across organizations including generative AI; orchestration of ecosystems via digital platforms; and the impact of regulation on innovation across platform ecosystems. His research has involved close engagement with organizations across sectors including healthcare, financial services and banking, energy, automotive, enterprise software, mobile app stores, and consulting. He has been awarded research grants from the British Academy, Innovate UK, UKRI and institutional grants from the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester among others. His research has been published in FT50 journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Business Venturing and Organisation Studies, among others. Panos currently serves as a Senior Editor at MIS Quarterly and Senior Editor at Information & Organization. 

Panos has led the development of interdisciplinary curricula at the intersection of IS, strategy and organizational change. He has taught courses on digital strategy, leading digital transformation, platform ecosystems, digital health, global sourcing and innovation, organizational change, and research methods, and his teaching has spanned the BSc, MBA, MSc, Executive Doctorate, and Ph.D. programs. He has supervised ten Ph.D. dissertations and served as examiner for another ten. Panos has developed and delivered leadership and executive development programs for major corporations in the areas of digital disruption and digital transformation, platform strategy and leading digital health. He is currently offering the open program Leading Digital Transformation at Alliance Manchester Business School. He has previously co-organized a number of Digital Health Forum events at the Warwick Business School (London Shard campus) and Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. These events aimed at facilitating knowledge exchange between academics, senior practitioners and policy leaders embedded in the digital innovation ecosystem.

Panos is the author of the practitioner book Digital Transformation in Healthcare: An Ecosystem Approach that has received endorsements from business school academics, and chief executives in healthcare and technology consulting. He regularly advises senior business leaders, public sector officials and policy makers on how to manage the transition to new technologies and new business models in the digital economy and is a frequent contributor to media and practitioner outlets including Concurrences, Competition Policy International, PYMNTS, Thinkers50, MIT SloanManagement Review and others. He is also the host of the Digital Podcast on YouTube, Spotify and SubStack.